Whoever said good fences make good neighbors, didn't live next to family!

[ForestRunner98]

Looks great!!! I hate it when wood turns grey. Good job!!

 

[G-Golly Wally]

The shutters look good, and nobody could tell what you used unless you tell them! I have to admit that ATF is very versatile; I spray ATF every fall on the underside of my truck because of the super corrosive brine that they spray on the roads in the winter in my area. I experimented with a lot of things for a few years but ATF came out the winner!
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I Need to do that to my truck's. Driving in the North East has caused the frame of my F250 to scale and rust, and the rims are stuck to the hubs. I now drive a Nissan Frontier, I need to treat it before I head back up that way.
Will ATF keep the rims from sticking to the hubs?

 

[Rebel Outlaw]

I Need to do that to my truck's. Driving in the North East has caused the frame of my F250 to scale and rust, and the rims are stuck to the hubs. I now drive a Nissan Frontier, I need to treat it before I head back up that way.
Will ATF keep the rims from sticking to the hubs?

You bet! I also always use full synthetic ATF (you do a lot with 1 quart) and use an air compressor powered automotive type spray gun (you have to turn the pressure down on the low side).
For the "finicky stuff" or something like the rims I remove them and use a brush to lightly coat the areas. It really helps a lot, otherwise in a few years, you end up with a rusted bucket of bolts instead of a truck.

 

[G-Golly Wally]

My wife loves Christmas lights, I do too, I just hate hanging them up. But since she seemed so excited about buying lights for the house I wasn't going to complain about hanging them up. I still have some icicle lights to put up, that will happen tomorrow. I wish the security light wasn't so bright, It's the first one I've ever had on my property, it was here when we bought the house. I kinda like it and other times not. It would be better if I had control over it.

 

[G-Golly Wally]

Thought it was going to be some icicle lights for the porch, Noooo. It was icicle lights for the porch, and the entire house, another tree for the yard, and 4 lighted reefs for the windows. Since we were moving in the 29th of December last year we didn't decorate for Christmas, I guess she's making up for it this year.

 

[G-Golly Wally]

Tried to dress up the attic entrance, believe me the camera makes my handy work look better than it actually is. But it is an improvement from what was there!

 

[G-Golly Wally]

There's a Gypsie clan that live around Spiro Oklahoma, been there since the early 1900's. Most of them are in the paving business, and one stopped by my house the other day and asked if I wanted any asphalt millings for my driveway. It just so happens I had mentioned to my wife about 3 hours earlier that I would like some ground up asphalt for our driveway, so I took a chance and agreed to let them work on the driveway. Hopefully I didn't get taken advantage of so far it seems to be OK, I guess time will tell, 4000 dollars for about 700 feet of driveway is a little high in my opinion, but I know diesel fuel is 5 + dollars a gallon so I can understand the price, if anything I should have a good base for something else to layer over it if this doesn't work like I hope. I had a layer of packed sp2 gravel but I couldn't keep the grass out of it, so maybe this will work.
They laid it, roller packed it, so far so good.

 

[S&W357]

I like it

 

[Rwb]

There's a Gypsie clan that live around Spiro Oklahoma, been there since the early 1900's. Most of them are in the paving business, and one stopped by my house the other day and asked if I wanted any asphalt millings for my driveway. It just so happens I had mentioned to my wife about 3 hours earlier that I would like some ground up asphalt for our driveway, so I took a chance and agreed to let them work on the driveway. Hopefully I didn't get taken advantage of so far it seems to be OK, I guess time will tell, 4000 dollars for about 700 feet of driveway is a little high in my opinion, but I know diesel fuel is 5 + dollars a gallon so I can understand the price, if anything I should have a good base for something else to layer over it if this doesn't work like I hope. I had a layer of packed sp2 gravel but I couldn't keep the grass out of it, so maybe this will work.
They laid it, roller packed it, so far so good. View attachment 58937

looks real good so far

 

[Shadetree Mechanic]

There's a Gypsie clan that live around Spiro Oklahoma, been there since the early 1900's. Most of them are in the paving business, and one stopped by my house the other day and asked if I wanted any asphalt millings for my driveway. It just so happens I had mentioned to my wife about 3 hours earlier that I would like some ground up asphalt for our driveway, so I took a chance and agreed to let them work on the driveway. Hopefully I didn't get taken advantage of so far it seems to be OK, I guess time will tell, 4000 dollars for about 700 feet of driveway is a little high in my opinion, but I know diesel fuel is 5 + dollars a gallon so I can understand the price, if anything I should have a good base for something else to layer over it if this doesn't work like I hope. I had a layer of packed sp2 gravel but I couldn't keep the grass out of it, so maybe this will work.
They laid it, roller packed it, so far so good. View attachment 58937

Looking good! The summer heat should stick it together pretty good. Lots of people around here use it, I am ready for another load myself.

 

[BJ radionut]

"$4000 dollars for about 700 feet of driveway is a little high in my opinion, but I know diesel fuel is 5 + dollars a gallon so I can understand the price"

Not bad IMHO...15+ years ago... I paid $5600 for a Concrete Drive 31 feet wide x 85 feet long w/ a 10' x 15' wide turnaround

 

[ForestRunner98]

Not bad IMHO...15+ years ago... I paid $5600 for a Concrete Drive 31 feet wide x 85 feet long w/ a 10' x 15' wide turnaround

That’s not bad either!!! I paid $5000 in 2002 for a 12’w x 50’L concrete driveway w/ a rear patio slab. That was a deal too! It was also removal of the old driveway.

 

[G-Golly Wally]

I have my grandmother's old ironing board, so a few screws later and a trip to Hobby Lobby and I made a Laundry sign for my wife and surprised her when she got home from work this evening.

 

[G-Golly Wally]

My daughter took this picture of the sunrise December 24th. I thought it was really good, and I love that she got the pump jack in there, they're everywhere around here. I know it's not really related to anything in this thread but that it was a really cool picture, so I made it my screen saver.

 

[TM86]

If not for the pump jack I would have thought that was a generated image. Very nice.